The crowd of 41,848 was the smallest to attend a UCLA football game at the Rose Bowl since 1997. It wasn’t so much that fans knew that this would be a blow out at the hands of Utah, but rather the conditions that surrounded it.
This was a Friday night game that kicked off at 7:30 p.m. It also went up against the Los Angeles Dodgers playing in Game 3 of the World Series a few miles down the 110 freeway. Heck, there were even several marquee high school games across Southern California that seemed more appealing.